CBD Daily News Headlines http://www.cbd.int/headlines.aspx Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON, DC, August 19, 2008 (ENS) - The nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington DC to force the federal government to disclose studies on the effect of a new pesticide on honey bees. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-19-092.asp Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2008) - With oil prices skyrocketing, the search is on for efficient and sustainable biofuels. Research published this month in Agronomy Journal examines one biofuel crop contender: corn stover. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080819160205.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum. http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=4791&codi=36076&idproducttype=8&level=0 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT NEW DELHI: Biotechnology provides a viable solution to almost every form of environmental damage and the government must pay more attention to it, says Biocon head Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Developmental_Issues/Use_biotechnology_for_green_development_Kiran_Mazumdar/articleshow/3383020.cms Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT LISBON (Reuters Life!) - The world's leading cork maker has launched a campaign against the increasing use of screw caps and plastic stoppers in wine bottles, which it says is a threat to Portugal's forests of cork oaks. http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSLC44285220080819 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Compared to the polar bear, the American pika is downright tiny. Weighing only 4 ounces to 6 ounces, this small, rabbit-like mammal with thick brown hair that lives on boulder-covered slopes near alpine meadows in western US mountain ranges, could represent the latest effort to use the Endangered Species Act to combat global warming. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/19/wildlife.climatechange Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT An expert on climate change on has said even though climate change has grave implications for the cocoa, water, mining and food production sectors of African countries, African leaders are yet to fully grasp the phenomenon and its implications for the continent. http://www.myjoyonline.com/technology/200808/19581.asp Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=ahepVMuRNlfU&refer=japan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT PARIS (AFP) - The habitats of wild bird species are shifting in response to global warming, but not fast enough to keep pace with rising temperatures, according to a study released Wednesday. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPcIMxbqheGoxnkzteRCN24PTsVg Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Two of Canada's iconic Arctic species - their habitats already threatened by rising temperatures and changing ice conditions - could soon be transformed from victims of global warming into unwitting climate-change culprits, according to a new U.S. study of caribou and muskox impacts on the polar environment. http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f09b1eca-a3d9-4838-9a57-d8e9c295a785 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT OSLO (Reuters) - More than 150 nations meet in Ghana from Thursday trying to speed up sluggish talks on a new climate treaty and plug big gaps in a "vision" of leading industrial nations of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKLJ46600720080820 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT KENAI NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Here in a 13,700-year-old peat bog, ecologist Ed Berg reaches into the moss and pulls out more evidence of the drastic changes afoot due to the Earth's warming climate. http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN1928279720080819 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT The already parched U.S. Southwest is drying up even more, at least in early spring, because of climate change. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fewer-april-showers-for-southwest&sc=rss Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, scientists have found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7571229.stm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT A German geography professor has developed a controversial system of mountain "wind-catching" screens which he claims could slow or even halt the dramatic rate at which Europe's glaciers are melting. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/how-catching-cold-mountain-air-could-save-europes-glaciers-902913.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT A captive breeding programme and conservation efforts may just prove enough to save Brazil's golden lion tamarins. http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Tamarins-are-back-from-the-brink-354648153.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT The scale of British water consumption and its impact around the world is revealed in a new report today, which warns of the hidden levels needed to produce food and clothing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/20/water.food1 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT A three-year field study on the Tibetan plateau has shown that plant species differ in their ability to emit or consume methane, a potent greenhouse gas. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080820/full/news.2008.1053.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT WASHINGTON (AFP) - Even low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water appears to be associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes, researchers said in a study published Tuesday. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5irgwbIqt2c5VPPSco7lwFXwI3u2g Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2008) - Chronic lead poisoning, caused in part by the ingestion of contaminated dirt, affects hundreds of thousands more children in the United States than the acute lead poisoning associated with imported toys or jewelry. Could treating contaminated soil with water prevent this public health scourge? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080819160153.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT QUITO (AFP) - Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were under a botanical alert Tuesday after a destructive Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) was detected on the archipelago, the Agricultural Health Service (SESA) said. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvLOiA-g-wpUw9qB1hC5sDBaOvPw Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Diverse species of algae are proving to be unlikely allies in the fight against the lethal toxins created by red tides. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080820/full/news.2008.1041.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT